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Critical commentary about Ludwig Wittgenstein's view of 'hinge propositions

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Critical commentary about Ludwig Wittgenstein's view of ‘hinge propositions' That is to say, the questions that we raise and our doubts depend on the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, are as it were like hinges on which those turn Introduction The theory of hinge propositions is based on what people can claim is known....

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Women in the Workplace: An Evolution

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This essay describes an evolution of women in the workplace.... The researcher focuses on the jobs that have become highly stereotyped as ‘a woman's job' and sexist attitude, that is one of the prime factors which have led to the feminization of certain professions.... .... ... ... The researcher of this essay states that from as far back as the Colonial era, when even the thought of a woman working was completely out of the question, to the present, where women make up nearly half of the nation's workforce – it is not hard to see what an incredulous transformation of feminization has taken place....

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International Accounting Standards - Implementation for the UK Small and Medium Enterprises

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The paper "International Accounting Standards - Implementation for the UK Small and Medium Enterprises" argues the global adoption of standards can increase competition in accounting, that is, to reduce the accounting costs, but it can also lead to smaller accounting firms to stop their activities....

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The supply of goods act

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The Supply of Goods Act was used to shape the premise and establish the fact that a transaction had in fact transpired and on the basis of the set of circumstances which accompanied this transaction, the new for the incorporation of the Supply of Goods and services Act of 1982 became necessary in pointing out a possible resolution....

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McDonalds in Kazakhstan

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As a global company that has become the icon of all-American business, McDonald's Corporation operates fast food restaurants all over the world.... The company is the world's largest food service retailing chain, preparing and serving a range of foods.... All McDonald's restaurants offer a standard menu, which comprise food items such as hamburgers, cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, French fries, salads, milk shakes, desserts and ice cream sundaes....

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Paintings in art history

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The essay "Paintings in art history" explores the most famous paintings, movements, and artists in the context of art history.... Fifteenth-century artist Sandro Botticelli is noted for his lyrical, flowing style, often decorative and showing a certain elegance.... ... ... ... The stylistic characteristics of the Florentine Renaissance can be summed up as idealistic and romantic with paintings of this time showing mannerist style and personal aesthetic expression....

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Physicians Ethics and Lethal Injection

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The concept of participating in lethal injections consciously and directly conflicts with what might be called the "traditional" view of the physician's role.... The traditional view, as articulated, for example, by the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association in 1973 declared: "The intentional termination of the life of one human being by lethal injection killing-is contrary to that for which the medical profession stands and is contrary to the policy of the American Medical Association" (Ramsey 1999, p....

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The Role of Memory in The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll

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"The Role of Memory in The Train Was on Time by Heinrich Boll" paper focuses on this story that delimits a peculiar stage at the creative activity of Heinrich Boll.... "The train was on time' was the first attempt to realize what had happened to people.... ... ... ... The death of both characters symbolizes the tragedy of the unavoidable fate....

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Recessional by James Michener

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This essay focuses on the response to the problems of the aged in the United States is to free them as far as possible from responsibilities, making them economically independent to some extent, and providing specialized institutions to take care of their problems of health.... ... ... ... This is mainly due to the decline in mortality rate....

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Matisse's Serpentine

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The essay explores Henri Matisse's art.... Henri Matisse began an astonishingly prolific era in 1907.... Although recognized for his colorful paintings, Matisse also created extraordinary sculptures.... A Matisse sculpture was defined by new sexuality, unorthodox anatomical features.... ... ... ...

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Taming the Wild Things for Children

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"Taming the Wild Things for Children" paper states that scary picture books do not indiscriminately try to scare young readers.... The creators of such books also take into consideration the control of fear.... Such books do control themselves and control their effects on children.... ... ... ... Another way of eradicating the fear of scary folk tales is by encouraging children to write and draw....

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The System of Electing the President

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The paper 'The System of Electing the President' presents the USA which is the greatest democracy on earth and its president is often referred to as 'the leader of the free world.... The American voters do the election of the President and Vice President of the United States indirectly.... ... ... ...

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Why Were Women In Ireland Excluded From The Public Exercise Of Power Over Men

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The history of political ideas in Ireland is largely unwritten.... Many great people are ignored; and some political traditions, conservatism for example, are regarded as either of no great importance as a subject for analysis; or as marginal to the political development of Ireland.... ... ... ... Women in Irish history have generally appeared as the oppressed “other”....

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Eragon and Harry: The Responsibility of Fate

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"Eragon and Harry: The Responsibility of Fate" paper compares the novels, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.... K.... Rowling, and Eragon by Christopher Paolini that has main male characters that struggle with the issues of identity while confronting a fated encounter with evil.... ... ... ...

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The Law on the Admissibility of Confession Evidence

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The paper entitled 'The Law on the Admissibility of Confession Evidence' presents the balance between the rights of the suspect and the needs of the prosecution with regard to the admissibility of confession evidence and evidence obtained by entrapment.... ... ... ... It is necessary to examine how confession evidence can be used, as well as examining case law were this was allowed or disallowed....

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International Strategic Management

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The paper "International Strategic Management" focuses on Aldi which is one of the largest retail food outlets in the world.... Today, Aldi is one of the considerable players in the packaged grocery industry of Australia with almost 5% of the market share.... .... ... ... Presently, it operates from seven thousand stores from all over the world with an annual turnover of € 36....

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Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (the novel)

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This essay discusses the novel "Lolita", that revolves around the whims of a pedophiliac man and his obsession with an adolescent girl.... Conventionally, this very idea would bring out the worst of repulsiveness and disgust on part of the reader.... However, haunted by guilt man is not damned in entirety by the reader....

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The Killer Angels

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This novel, unlike any other, uses real life characters like that of General Lee, General Joshua Chamberlain amongst many others and this gives it an.... ... ... This piece of work, a great historical novel, is in reality a fiction and should not be confused with the actual happenings at that time....

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The Remuneration of the Chief Executive

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This report describes the analysis of the remuneration of the Chief Executive of a company and explores the impact of various factors that may affect the remuneration.... The analysis was conducted using the data of 300 companies consisting of the CEO's remuneration etc.... ... ... ... The objective of this study is to analyze whether the CEO's remuneration is in some way related to the performance of the firm or results from the position and power of the chief executive....

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The Risks Involved if the U.S. Withdrew From Iraq

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cademia-research.... The following essay "The Risks Involved if the U.... .... Withdrew From Iraq" concerns the US occupation of Iraq.... It is mentioned that most Americans now agree with what the rest of the world has known all along, that the invasion of Iraq was not in the best interest of western-Arab relations....

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On the Bus with Rosa Parks

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This paper "On the Bus with Rosa Parks" presents Rita Dove that captures the spirit of the postmodern age in the form and rhythm of her free verse.... On the Bus with Rosa Parks is a collection of free-verse poems that are loosely connected by the characters featured and the experiences shared.... ...

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The Morality, Humanity, and Legality

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Recently Susie was diagnosed with a terminal condition.... The prognosis is a grim one.... As the disease progresses it will bring, pain, degeneration, and ultimately complete immobility before inevitable death.... ... ... ... Your Name Instructor's Name Course Name Due Date Recently Susie was diagnosed with a terminal condition....

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Cybercrime, privacy and security concepts in the film WarGames

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Cybercrime, privacy and security concepts in the film WarGames (1983) ... he film, WarGames (1983), is a film narrating a fictional story of a young computer wizard, who is very intelligent and still in high school, but appears to be unmotivated.... .... ... ... Cybercrime, privacy and security concepts in the film WarGames (1983) Student's Name Grade Course Instructor's Name (23rd, Nov....

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Materials: Nodular Iron Casting Crankshaft

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The paper is an account of the heat-treating process for the nodular iron crankshaft.... A crankshaft translates the linear motion of pistons into rotational motion in an engine.... There are three ways of making crankshafts: forging, casting, and machining from a solid billet.... ... ... ... Solvent welding has been widely used in a variety of industrial applications such as manufacturing of plumbing and piping materials and even in the assembly of plastic toys....

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Lloyds TSB Brand

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The aim of the paper "Lloyds TSB Brand" is to conduct a market audit of LTSB.... First of all the organization objectives have been evaluated.... LTSB is a subsidiary of LBG and offers a wide range of banking and financial services in the UK and worldwide.... ... ... ... In the paper, the internal and external environment analysis has been conducted....

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Restructuring TATA Group

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This essay "Restructuring TATA Group" gives a fair idea regarding various factors related to human resource management.... These factors include human resource planning, job evaluation, motivation, rewards, criteria for redundancy, etc.... The essay includes relevant theories and their possible application in the context of Tata corp....

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Tower of Hercules and Las Medulas Mines

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The researcher of this essay gives a review on a Spanish world heritage sites.... The Roman invaders captured a large portion of the region, began building their fortresses, symbols, and continued a mass plunder of the Hispanic resources for the next few centuries.... ... ... ... The author proved, that, during their rule, Romans had built monuments of value that the new invaders considered worth maintaining....

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Social Psychology - Loneliness

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Internet appears to help loneliness by providing opportunity for online social interaction.... In contrast internet may cause loneliness.... Purpose of this study, Social Psychology - Loneliness, was to find out association between internet usage and loneliness.... ... ... ... As the report declares pearson product-moment correlation coefficients showed significant positive correlation between internet usage and social, family and romantic loneliness....

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The Impact of Postmodernism and Live Art on the Simpsons

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This paper aims to analyze "The Simpsons" in the context of postmodernism.... Post-modernism and live art has clearly impacted the show in many ways.... A great example of the Simpsons' transgressive nature and intertextual parody is the recent Banksy opening.... ... ... ... The essay explores postmodernism through "The Simpsons"....

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The European Airline Industry

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The paper 'The European Airline Industry' presents industry which has historically been heavily regulated by individual countries in a bid to protect their own carriers.... As flag-carriers started accumulated losses, deregulation and liberalization opened the way for many low-cost start-up carriers....

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Risk Management of Patterson UTI Energy

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The author concludes that Patterson UTI Energy strives to become the leading name in drilling solution.... Although the company operates in a highly dynamic and competitive market, its commitment to safety in advanced technology will bring beneficial results in future .... ... ... In order to enhance the financial outlook, the companies are now adopting strategic measures to curtail its expenditure through any means possible, and self-insurance is one of them....

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Commentaries on the Gospel according to St John

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In the research essay 'Commentaries on the Gospel according to St John' the author focuses on the book in the New Testament.... The Gospel of St John contains information about Jesus and statements attributed to Jesus which are not in the Synoptic Gospels.... ... ... ... By reading the Gospel of St....

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Aspects of ITunes Marketing Strategy

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The paper "Aspects of ITunes Marketing Strategy" describes that from the perspective of the company, it is a necessity in order to protect content and profitability.... But its competition is already offering this functionality and it might ultimately become iTunes' undoing.... ... ... ... The social media is characterized by unbridled sharing of information, which is not what Apple wants because it affects profitability as well as the product quality and user experience....

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Malignant melanoma or chicken pox or shingles or goiter disease. PICK JUST ONE OF THE 4

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Infection from the disease is common in the areas where the climatic conditions are average and have a small margin of variation.... Infections are high in.... ... ... Infection from the Small pox is usually once in a lifetime therefore its likely that a person might not be infected again due to the immunity that follows the infection....

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The Underground Railroad - Pathway to Freedom

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This paper is primarily based on the US Underground Railroad in times of slavery.... This network of safe houses and secret routes through the countryside was used by the black slaves.... Having been forced to endure violence, they tried to escape into the free states or to emigrate up into Canada....

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EPIDEMIOLOGY OF HEPATITIS B VIRUS

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Hepatitis B virus (HBV) is a DNA (double stranded) virus belonging to Hepadnaviridae family that targets the liver to cause a chronic or an acute potentially life-threatening disease.... Hepatitis due to HBV infection has become a global challenge because as per the World Health.... ... ... 1) and about one third of the world population has had the infection some time during their life and could serve as the carriers....

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Biography of Frank Serpico

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The paper contains the biography of Frank Serpico, a man who stood unwavering in the face of wrong and fought courageously against injustice and corruption.... He is famous for playing his part as a whistleblower in the year 1971 when he testified against the corruption prevalent in the NYPD .... ...

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Art, Science and Technology ( A Cabinet of Curiosities )

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This is a collection of drawings which depict different birds that can be found in Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.... This can be found ~~~~~(Location on Campus)~~~~~~ ... ... hicken Coop Painting.... This piece portrays.... ... ... The pens seem to go on forever into the distance....

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Homicide in Puerto Rico

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NYC police reported approximately 600 murders occurring in 2003, while Puerto Rico police reported almost 800 murders during the same time.... The reason for this variation, the causes which possibly play a part in this and the solutions and approaches to tackle this crisis is discussed in this report....

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Kafkas Parable of the Law

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The present research paper discusses Kafka's The Trial.... In the past, religious leaders and government officials operated from a higher position detailing the truth of God's law and the socially agreed upon concept of what was considered true or false, real or heretical, and legal or criminal....

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How to Fight Incivility in the Workplace

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The author concludes that the outcomes of incivility are negative, and should not be tolerated in any organization.... Despite being a mild form of mistreatment in the workplace, incivility can result in great problems, and in serious cases, the complete downfall for an organization .... ... ... The leaders in the workplace and organizations in general also contribute to workplace incivility....

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Personality Identification by Fingerprints

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The paper "Personality Identification by Fingerprints" describes that many experts think that the identification by means of fingerprints can be considered as reliable as genetic dactyloscopy and if they never doubt the results of it because they are sure in its credibility.... ... ... ... Experts frequently start to compare the fingerprints on the scene of the crime, while this should be done in the laboratory....

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The Role I Play in Communication Subject

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The author of the paper states that the role play aims at communication skills we want to develop or improve.... The author chooses conflict management his/her roleplay topic in this essay.... The scenarios in the roleplay are the ones the author has experienced in a part-time job.... .... ... ... In the role play, I do not think I had enough confidence....

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Stereotypical Representation of Women in a Streetcar Named Desire

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This paper "Stereotypical Representation of Women in a Streetcar Named Desire " focuses on A Streetcar Named Desire which is an intricate play by Tennessee Williams, packed with a complex set of stereotyped roles and conflicting emotions that intertwine with the characters' lives.... .... ... ... The playwright reveals a clear understanding of the emotional and social roles of each of the character through his literary excellence....

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Are We Living in a Postmodern Society

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This essay "Are We Living in a Postmodern Society" discusses the society that has experienced numerous transitions between different epochs inseparably connected to the complex system of worldviews and beliefs.... Humanity has experienced a dramatic revolution in the way of thinking.... ... ... ... Modernism is perceived as the positive and promising state of the society, whereas postmodernism proves uncertain and more pessimistic....

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Weaknesses of Airport Security

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The paper "Weaknesses of Airport Security" discusses that a smooth operating airport ensures a thriving or booming economy for the entire region or country as it enables the swift movement of goods and services needed for any types of business activities.... ... ... ... A passenger must have a flight ticket and a visa to his or her destination before boarding a plane....

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The Best Development to Realize and Feature All Elements in the Play

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The paper "The Best Development to Realize and Feature All Elements in the Play" discusses the great work of Tony Kushner.... A sense of the period of the play Angels in America should be offered to the audience.... The person to act the role of Roy Cohn should be dressed expensively.... ... ... ...

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Globalization and Feminism Issues

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The essay "Globalization and Feminism Issues" critically analyzes the major notions of globalization and feminism.... The process of the opening up of market economies all over the world has laid the platform for an increase in industrialization and the emergence of a diverse workforce.... ... ... ...

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The Vietnam War

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The paper "The Vietnam War" discussed that the Vietnam War confirmed that there are indeed limitations to a military superpower's capacity to enforce its will on other nations and political systems.... Understanding this reality is a critical facet of foreign policy.... ... ... ... The U.... .... drew a symbolic line in the sand in Southeast Asia after the Soviets built the Berlin Wall and continued in its aspirations to dominate other Eastern European nations....

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Comparison of the Three Plays in the Oedipus Trilogy

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This research paper "Comparison of the Three Plays in the Oedipus Trilogy" shows that both Creon and Chorus are of fundamental value throughout the Oedipus trilogy.... The Chorus plays the role of cautioning and advocating for goodness, stability, a sense of wisdom, and respect for the law....

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